…February 28 when US-Israeli strikes on Iran killed former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A ceasefire reached later broke down in July after attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz resumed, cutting off a route that previously carried one-fifth of the world's oil supplies.Saudi Arabia condemns Iran…

…political posts. He then served as military adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. Rezaei declared in July that control of the Strait of Hormuz, now at the centre of the ongoing conflict between Iran and the United States, was “more important than dozens of atomic bombs”. His predecessor, Zolghadr, was a…

…Supreme Leader vows revenge over k!lling of his father Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has vowed that revenge for the killing of his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, will be carried out, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump warned Tehran against any attempt to assassinate him.The exchange of threats co…

…“Vengeance is the will of our nation and must inevitably be carried out,” Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written message. He became Iran’s supreme leader after his father Ali Khamenei’s killing in late February by US-Israeli strikes, but has not been in public since before the war. “This matter depends neither on my person…

…targets on Tuesday. The strikes on Thursday came hours ahead of the burial of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s late supreme leader, who was killed at the outbreak of the war on February 28. UN chief Antonio Guterres called meanwhile “on all parties to exercise maximum restraint” — as did Pakistan, a key mediator in the US-Iran tal…

…Middle East conflict, which began February 28 with US-Israeli strikes that killed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who is to be buried in his hometown of Mashhad on Thursday. Since the attacks, Tehran has insisted on controlling the strait, saying it will charge fees for passage and threatening to hit vessels that…

Iranian leaders joined prayers Sunday over the casket of late supreme leader Ali Khamenei during a second day of funeral ceremonies, but his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei was conspicuously absent. The elder Khamenei ruled the Islamic republic from 1989 until he was killed aged 86 in an airstrike on the first day o…

…Hezbollah and Hamas attended the funeral ceremonies of late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday and met with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, state media reported. Tehran has for years provided support to Palestinian group Hamas, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis — all designated terrorist grou…

Huge crowds of Iranians were expected to pay their final respects to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday at the start of marathon funeral ceremonies intended to serve as a show of strength to the Islamic Republic's foes. Iranian authorities say they anticipate between 15 and 20 million participants in Tehran alone…

…began on February 28 with US-Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. AFP